Verizon explains its string of LTE outages (via GigaOM)
All three outages were caused by problems in Verizon’s service delivery core — in telecom-speak called the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) — which replaces the old signaling architectures used in 2G and 3G networks.

Mobile users lean toward apps over browsers (via GigaOM)
ComScore said that 44.9 percent of people used apps in November, compared to 44.4 percent who used a browser. That appears to mark the first time since comScore started noting mobile content usage that app usage has surpassed browser usage.